Mailing-tube.



H. L. GRAY.

MAILING TUBE.

APPLICATION rmnnzuxn a, 1909.

Patented May 3, 1910.

Inge? tor %W41 Atto neg HOMER L. GRAY, or AL EDA, bALIFonNIA.

MAILING-TUBE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3, 1910.

Application filed June 5, 190,9. SerialNo. 500,321.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IIOMER L. GRAY,- a citizen of the United States,residingzat 2417, Eagle avenue, Alameda, inthe county of Alameda andState of California, have invented a new and useful Mailin -Tube, ofwhich the following is a speci fi cation in such full and clear terms aswill enable those skilled in the art to construct and use the same.

This invention relates to a mailing tube and its object is to securearticles in said tube and to provide means whereby the said articles maybe easily removed therefrom.

A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby thearticles in the tube may be protected from injury and kept clean intransit.

In the drawings, in which the same numeral of reference is applied tothe same part throu hout the several views, Figure 1 is a side elevationof a mailing tube showing one form of the securing means attached to theoutside of the tube. Fig. 2. is a plan view of a sheet of materialshowing the securing tape or binding passed thereover, preliminary tobeing rolled up with said material for insertion in the tube. Fig. 3shows the rolled up sheet of material and the manner of placing thesecuring tape or binding thereover, Fig. 4 is a side elevation ofanother tube, showing another form of the securing means attached to itsoutside, Fig. 5 is a lan view of a sheet of materialand. showing thetape or binding passed thereover for securing the same to the tube asillustrated in Fig. 6, Fig. 6 is a side elevationof the rolled u ackage,ready for insertion in the tube, 1g. 7 is a side elevation. of a tube,having another form of the securing means attached thereto. Fig. 8 is aplan of a sheet of material with the securing and protecting meanspassed thereover ready for rolling, Fig. 9 is a side elevation of :1-rolled up package ready for insertion in the tube, and Fig. 10 is a viewof a vertical section through the tube, showing manner of protecting theends of the rolled up article and showing the securing means.

It is customary to send articles, such as calendars, sheets of materialof various kinds and even breakable articles. through the mails in paperor sheet tubes of some description. \Vhcn articles which are rolled upare inserted in such a tube, the spring of .the material is soconsiderable that it causes themass of said material to press tightlyagan'ist the inside of the tube. -The friction thus produced is soconsiderable that itoften becomes verydifi icu'lt'to take the. arti-.cles out of the tube, various means have" been therefor devised for theremoval of the article. In this instance the tube is "illustrated at land is of the ordinary cylindrical form having both ends open: The sheetof material to be rolled up and insorted in the tube is illustrated at 2and 3 is a narrow band of any suitable material, as heavy paper, whichis passed across the sheet of material, said material then belng rolledinto the form shown in Fig. 3, the ends of the tape or binding 3 arethen passed across the body of the material from end to end in oppositedirections as indicated in Fig. 4. The object is then inserted in thetube and the ends of the ta e or binding 8 are then'secured to the tuliein any suitable manner as illustrated in Fig. 1. It will be observedthat this forms a firm securing means since the sheet of material cannotbe unrolled without taking it out of the tube and it cannot be taken outof the tube without-first removing the ends of the tape or bindingtherefrom.

In Fig. 4 is illustrated a n'iodified form of the securing means. Inthis figure the tube 1 and the sheet of material are the same but'thetape or binding 4 has only' I one end passed across the rolled up sheetof material as illustrated in Fig. 6. the other end being rolled upinside the body of said material. \Vhen sheet is rolled up asillustrated in Fig. (3, it is ready for insertion in the tube, afterwhich the ends of the tape or binding may be secured to the tube asillustrated in Fig. a.

When it is desired to protect the ends of the rolled up body of materialthe tape or binding may be widened into a sheet as illustrated in Fig.8, said sheet having a pair of straps 6 formed therein, at each endthereof said 'tape or binding being near enough to the edge of the sheetof material to lie outside the rolled up body when the roll is completeas illustrated in Fig. 9. body'is then ready for insertion in the tubeand when inserted the ends of the roll are pressed down into the end ofthe. mailing tube as illustrated in Fig. 10, said ends of the sheet thenprotecting the rolled up body.

The tapes or bindings (3 are then turned outward and securedto theoutside of the The Having thus deseribed m y invention What i I claim asnew and desire to'seou're by Let ters Patent of the United States, is asfoll0WS;,jr

v 1. In a mailing tube a cylindrical tube,

and a rolled wrap er within the tube, said rolled wrapper having tabsadapted to pro ject from: theitube and beisecured on the outsidethereof,.substantially as described.-

2.;--;In a mailing tube, a cylindrical tube, and a rolled wrapper withinthe tube, said rolled w'rapper comprising a, rectangular sheet having atab at each end thereof which is ada ted to Project. from the tube andbe on the outside thereof at each end of the tube, as set forth.

3,,In a package, a cylindrical tube, a parce1, and a wrapping for saidparcel compris nga rectangular sheet of material havmg'a tab at each endthereof, said tab secured to the outside of the tube at each endthereof, the remainder of the projecting portion of said sheet materialbeing crumpled within the tube'at the ends thereof, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have setmyjhand in the presence of the twosubseribedwitmesses.

1 y HOMER L. GRAY. Witnesses:

C. P. GRIFFIN,

A. K. DAeenT'r.

